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Everyday Use
Number of Words: 962 / Number of Pages: 4
... After being away at college, she is demanding to be given the quilts that her grandmother and aunt have made, for she now sees these precious items as fashionable objects. "Dee wanted nice things. At sixteen she had a style of her own and knew what style was." She has a selfish mind of her own. Mama is more simple. She learned about life by working hard. "I was always better at a man's job. I used to love to milk till I was hoofed in the side in 49." Because Mama is intimately aquatinted with labor, she can relate to the arduous work that is involved in putting a quilt together. This unfolds as a ...
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Alcoholizm
Number of Words: 637 / Number of Pages: 3
... over a period of years. Alcohol comes to be used more as a mood-changing drug than as a foodstuff or beverage served as a part of social custom or religious ritual.
Initially, the alcoholic may demonstrate a high tolerance to alcohol, consuming more and showing fewer adverse effects than others. Subsequently, however, the person begins to drink against his or her own best interests, as alcohol comes to assume more importance than personal relationships, work, reputation, or even physical health. The person commonly loses control over drinking and is increasingly unable to predict how much alcohol wil ...
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Macbeth Persona
Number of Words: 900 / Number of Pages: 4
... any other man under
God, but he must also be able to fill the duty that no other is qualified for. I have a list of
specific qualities that such a man must posses if he wishes to be my king, here in this issue
is that list.
The man who is to be king must be both loved and respected by the people. He must
do what he can to please them but not give in to shameless gimmicks to appear that he is
doing what is right. He must be a role model to our children and an inspiration to us all. He
must listen to the plights of his people and do what is in reason to fix the problems that we
face on a daily basis.
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Brave New World 8
Number of Words: 1459 / Number of Pages: 6
... inspired rock singer Jim Morrison to name his group "The Doors." Then in 1963 Huxley with his wife by his side ingested a dose of mescaline while on his deathbed.
Aldous Huxley’s, Brave New World shows humanity, that an obsession with a utopia, as they world they live in, will come with great cost and is near impossible as he shows that the problem is knowledge destroys value of life. As man has progressed through the ages, there has been, essentially, one purpose. That purpose is to arrive at a utopian society, where everyone is happy, disease is nonexistent, and strife, anger, or sadness ar ...
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Hamlet Scene By Scene
Number of Words: 1084 / Number of Pages: 4
... grabbed her wrist, stared at her face, sighed, let her go, and walked out the door backwards.
What's happened? Hamlet, who has set about to feign mental illness, is actually just acting on his own very genuine feelings. Hamlet cares very much about Ophelia. He must have hoped for a happy life with her. Now it is painfully obvious that they are both prisoners of a system that will never allow them to have the happiness that they should.
When Hamlet act like a flesh-and-blood human being showing authentic emotions, people like Polonius will say he is insane. And Polonius suggests Hamlet is lovesick. M ...
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Symbolism And Characterization In Books
Number of Words: 784 / Number of Pages: 3
... between the two men. "I was almost as much of a stranger on board as himself…at that moment I felt it most acutely" (28). The Captain still feels strangely about taking control of the ship, but he feels an impulsive connection with Leggatt. While Leggatt is close at his side, the Captain begins to think clearly and prepares a scheme to keep his secret sharer safe. "Such was my scheme for keeping my second self invisible. Nothing better could be contrived under the circumstances" (35). The Captain begins to think clearly and has no doubts about his actions, even while the surrounding conditions ...
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The Saga Of Elian Gonzalez
Number of Words: 2481 / Number of Pages: 10
... up in freedom fever was Elisabet Gonzalez, who had been dating
small-time Cuban hustler, Lazero Munero, since 1997. During the summer of 1998,
Munero and three friends made the trip to America on a tiny boat. That fall he went back
to Cuba because he was heartsick from his family and Elisabet. A few months after his
jail release for escaping, he began persuading Elisabet to join him on a second getaway.
He also began to advertise the trip to others in their town at one thousand dollars ahead,
then he began patching up an old boat and envinrude fifty horse power outboard motor.
When they set out t ...
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The Hobbit
Number of Words: 828 / Number of Pages: 4
... was the use of a Hobbit in the journey Bilb had answered his own question, when he summoned the courage to save the dwarves from perils along the way, such as goblins, giant spiders, and elven dugeons. He did this all with the help of a Ring, enchanted to make the wearer invisible. "Bless my soul, a hobbit CAN be useful!" But usefulness in itself does not a task complete. There was still the fact that the dwarf's gold had not been claimed, and Smaug still lay in the heart of the mountain. The band of travelers had crossed much terrain, hills, mountains, swamps, and gloomy forests, including the dark Mi ...
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Rituals
Number of Words: 668 / Number of Pages: 3
... to his house and just sit down and watch television. About and hour later my aunt shows up. She is always late and her time is an hour difference from the regular time. She brings all her kids and her husband (whom wants nothing more than to go home) inside and tries to perk them up. Well after a while every body decides to eat and we all grab a plate and dig in. It’s not fancy at all- all plastic silverware and usually we just find a chair to sit down on and eat there.
After dinner and several long minutes of boredom the card table gets pulled out. My uncle tries to think that he knows what ...
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James Joyce's "Araby"
Number of Words: 466 / Number of Pages: 2
... rest of
the people from this city. Dublin is referred to as the "center of
paralyses,"(Internet) and "indeed sterile."(Joyce) This plays a huge role in the
forming of this boy's life, where there is no fun. "Araby" is a story "of a
soul-shriveling Irish asceticism, which renders hopes and dreams not only
foolish, but sinful."(Coulthard) In the story, the only thing that the young boy
has to look forward to is buying something for the girl he loves, and in the end
he can't even do that; and by making the final characters English, the story
leaves an impact on the reader about the Dublin society. It sho ...
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